Recently while looking for info on the PC release of DARK SOULS (spiritual successor to PS3 only Demons Souls) I came across this rather interesting article from Gameinformer.

'The president of Sony's Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, says that by passing on From Software's excellent role-playing game Demon's Souls, Sony Computer Entertainment "dropped the ball" in North America and Europe.

"We were not able to see the value of the product we were making," Yoshida said in an interview at DICE.

Yoshida tells Game Informer that, even within Sony Computer Entertainment, which co-developed Demon's Souls with From Software, it was difficult for some to grasp the quality and gameplay eccentricities of the PlayStation 3 game.

"From my personal experience with Demon’s Souls, when it was close to finish I spent close to two hours playing it and after that I was still standing at the beginning at the game!" Yoshida explained.

"I said, 'This is crap. This is an unbelievably bad game.' So I put it aside."

Yoshida explains that the differences in development between Japanese and Western studios had an impact on being able to see Demon's Souls as a whole product. But that doesn't mean Sony has abandoned Demon's Souls (an IP that it owns)

"For our business to grow we must love our IP, Demon’s Souls. FromSoftware is a very important business partner, so we’ll see."

After the release of Demon's Souls, Namco Bandai partnered with From Software to create a spiritual sequel, Dark Souls, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. We'd expect to see a sequel to Dark Souls before Demon's Souls, but it will be interesting to see how that plays out...'

So there you go, how weird will it to have to franchises running simultaneously, for basically the same game..like that Sony / mgn james bond debacle!

I say more 'anything Souls' is good news for rabid fans like me and prob. you, as I consider it one of the best game series ever created, a work of art and genius game design at its' finest!